Why does he capitalise like it's the 18th century?

Arrived at what I was told was just a talk on Christianity in the workplace at local evangelical leaning Anglican church but I can SEE a man with a GUITAR. HELP.

Some of these birds seem very important

I think with Desert Island Discs I'd need to not fall into the trap of feeling like I'm literally about to be stranded

Loving this version of the Twelve Days of Christmas

this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...

People think Wolf Bridge is named after a wolf that guards it, or a wolf that sleeps under it, or even a wolf that waits in the middle and charges you a toll to cross it. But the boring truth is that Wolf Bridge is named after the engineer Sir Winston Wolf (who was part wolf).

I'm a big fan of the guy but Jesus is often really disconcerting and I suspect would have driven me mad to be around

every month features a headline saying "Boost/Blow to Rachel Reeves as GDP SURGES/COLLAPSES 0.1%" and then you read on and it's entirely dependent on whether Jaguar Land Rover have managed to turn on their computers

US economic news: Resilient American economy adds 500k new healthcare workers and data centre security guards UK economic news: Gilt markets on the brink as John Lewis CEO admits to opening phishing email

This might well become a thread. I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'

My fault for googling crossword clues I should have the sense to figure out myself but: lol

In 2003, Wikipedia held a logo design contest. Here are four of the finalists:

Yes but they'll still pretend it's just spoiled whining teenagers...

Old college chaplain has just posted a pic of the time he met Dua Lipa 😭

Idly wondering if God gives the Pope more clues he's real etc

Thought I liked the Traitors as a concept but alas I think I just like Nick Mohammed.

I love that Wikipedia's edit history is public because it only takes two clicks to get to the very first version of the "ant" article in its entirety from 2001. Happy 25th birthday Wikipedia! You've come so far

Also feels particularly perverse to have a perpetual 9% income tax hike on everyone in the nether region between the repayment threshold and the 'interest outstrips repayment' figure. Very rough maths suggests that's anyone on between £28,470 and about £60k, which is mad.

My mum and I went a bit mad and watched most of this in the pandemic

And the smugness of the proponents!

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Nigel Farage is currently unveiling Robert Jenrick as a defector at his 430 press conference.

Will Jenrick go for REVENGE

Drove in Normanton (the one in Derby) for the first time. Good grief.

You don't have to give it to him, however, Scott Adams didn't die because he was a dumbass that followed a woo peddler's ivermectin advice. He was dead anyway. His prostate cancer was not "treatable until he refused modern medicine." It was a death sentence already.

I am going to become the prostate cancer joker

I once saw someone say that we live in a crazy tiny chance timeline because in all the normal timelines the cold war went hot

What colour shoes would you wear with a dark green dress and black tights (colleague's wedding)? Just normal black?

An actual police and crime commissioner claimed that to prevent future cases like Everard's, women should simply get "streetwise about when they can be arrested and when they can't be arrested"

The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)

I need the most “the problems with police culture in England and Wales” paragraph you can find:

Wow this story really has got everything www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Anyway, if you own a prostate and are eligible for a PSA test you may want to ask your GP for one (with literally all the caveats about the efficacy of PSA tests applied)

You work in the field and you don't know that Gleason 9 prostate cancer can easily metastasise with no symptoms? Sure.

Sure. But but it was way better for your career, and the esteem of many of your highly placed professional peers, to be wrong about this and so many people were. They’re doing great btw www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Can someone please explain the Jerome Powell stuff? My baseline assumption is "terrifying"?

Singing teacher did some "gentle vocal exercises" with me and essentially tricked me into doing a top C

Well Nadhim Zahawi certainly is an Iraqi-born British former politician who served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak from 2018 to 2023.[2] He most recently served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without P

Considering deleting that post cos it's got so many likes 😬

I make very careful jokes on here and get a handful of likes and then I post a factual statement and whooosh it takes off.

Why don't we all just join the Moonies

This is the guy who accidentally let slip he pretends to be a tradwife online, presumably on another account

Welcome to everyone joining Bluesky from twitter. Someone will be assigned to you to misunderstand one of your jokes and scream at you shortly.

You know where has a surprisingly good high street? Belper. I often get the bus there specially to shop (it's where I got my massive winter coat from) because Derby's is a bit sad.

[horse meeting] We're getting a lot of good feedbag

Another aspect is the relationship between the salary level that triggers repayments & the recent chunky increases in National Living (Minimum) Wage. A founding justification for a loan system was that graduates will earn more but Plan 5 repayments are triggered at a salary not much over NLW.

Read this article this morning and I’ve said White Town’s Your Woman in my head ever since. (Also even if you think you don’t know the song you probably do…) youtu.be/lVL-zZnD3VU?...

Student loans went from 'zero' to 'not zero but largely repayable' to 'large and largely not repayable'

I'm on plan 2 and expect to be chipping away at the interest until my early 50s. And I'm still angry at a lot of people who did Very Sensible political commentary back in the 2010s about why this was fine.